Week 2: Psychosocial Theories and Therapy Flashcards
What is the 6 psychosocial theories?
- Psychoanalytic (Freud)
- Developmental (Erikson, Piaget)
- Interpersonal (Sullivan, Peplau)
- Humanistic (Maslow, Rogers)
- Behavioural (Pavlov, Skinner)
- Existential (Beck, Ellis, Frankl, Perls, Glasser)
What is the psychoanalytic theory(personality)?
- Developed in the 19th-early 20th century by Sigmund Freud
- Supports the notion that all human behaviour is caused and explainable
- Believed that repressed sexual impulses, desires motivate much of the human behaviour
What is “hysterical” based on Freud’s theory?
- no physiological basis
- women who displayed unusual behaviours such as disturbance of sight and speech, inability to eat, and paralysis of limbs
- Resulted from childhood trauma or failure to complete tasks of psychosocial development
What is Freuds 3 personality components?
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
What is the Id? (Freud)
-Seeks instant gratification, causing impulsive unthinking behaviour, and has no regard for rules or social convention
- One’s nature that reflects basic or innate desires such as pleasure seeking behaviours, aggression, and sexual impulses
- Pleasure system (reacts head on and right away to basic urges, needs, and desires.)
What is the ego? (Freud)
- Decision making component of personality that has been influenced by the world
- Represents mature and adaptive behaviour that allows a person to function successfully in the world
- Strong ego= strong sense of self-awareness
What is the superego? (Freud)
- Moral conscience (values and morals that they have learned growing up and in society)
- superego function is to control the id’s impulses and ego’s moralistic goals rather than simple ones
- Emerge around age five
What is the psychoanalytic theory(behaviour)?
- Behaviour is motivated by subconscious thoughts and feelings
- Consists of the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
What is conscious mind?
- Exists in person’s awareness
- It is everything that we are mentally and physically aware of
What is preconscious mind?
- Can be recalled with effort
- thoughts, feelings, and memories that can be and will be pulled into the conscious thoughts straightforwardly without any troubles.
What is the unconscious mind?
- Motivates people even though we are totally unaware of them
- No one knows what is stored here. It is believed that everything that is stored here is all the things a person is refusing to acknowledge for either if it is for personal reasons or something that terrifies them.
- Traumatic events that are too painful are stored here
What is a dream analysis?
Believed that a person’s dreams reflect their subconscious
What is a Freudian slip?
- “slip of the tongue”
- What we say or do is motivated by preconscious or unconscious
What is the psychoanalytic theory(Psychosexual)?
Stages of development
What is the oral psychosexual stages of development?
0-1 year old
- children derive pleasure from oral activities, including sucking and tasting. they like to put things into their mouth
What is the anal psychosexual stages of development?
2-3 years old
- Children begin potty training
What is the phallic psychosexual stages of development?
3-6 years old
- boys are more attracted to their mother while girls are more attracted to their father
What is the latency psychosexual stages of development?
6 years old to puberty
- Children spend more time and interact mostly with same sex peers
What is the genital psychosexual stages of development?
Beyond puberty
- Individuals are attracted to opposite sex peers
What is Erik Erkisons developmental theory?
- Eight psychosocial stages of development
What is Jean Piagets developmental theory?
- Cognitive, intellectual development
- Four stages:
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations
What is trust vs mistrust developmental theory (Erik)?
infant to 18 months
- if needs are met, infants develop trust